Specie non indigene nel Porto di Napoli. Lista dei ”ricercati” dalla Strategia Marina nei fondi duri

Abstract

From 2018 to 2022, we collected and analysed 60 hard substrate macrozoobenthos samples in the port of Naples, (Italy, Tyrrhenian Sea). Monitoring for the Marine Strategy Directive (2008/56/EC) with the aim of searching and finding NIS-Non-Indigenous Species. The taxonomic groups found in the most abundant macrozoobenthos samples, over the five years of monitoring are: crustaceans 35%, polychaetes 28% and molluscs 17%. The NIS species found are three crustaceans and one bivalve mollusc.